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Kooz to our bitter rivals?!?! Nevah! Unless they ship us some dope pitcher in return...

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I think this is a good sign

Kouz is fairly replaceable at this point, although Headley did look rusty out there. The Mariners make sense. They are losing Beltre for the season and then they’ll lose him through free agency after the season. My recollection of their prospects is that while they have a few good ones, none of them are major league ready 3B. As far as what we get in return, I think it would be underwhelming, but we need to make room for some players who will be cheaper and probably more talented than Kouzmanoff. That isn’t to say I wouldn’t be sorry to see him go, but I’m ever sorrier that he didn’t live up to his potential.

If I were to get optimistic about the return (without turning into a Cubs fan and demanding Greg Halman, Phillip Aumont or Michael Saunders, because if those guys were up for discussion this deal would already be done) I would want Juan Ramirez. He’s one of their top 10 prospects, but has struggled a little bit. He does pitch in High Desert this year (you know the place that Lake Elsinore scored 33 runs at) so his numbers are probably a little distorted, but he’s also a young guy (almost 21) that scouts like and is already in High A. Another guy would be Michael Pineda, who is also very young (20) and is in High A, but hasn’t pitched much this year (6 G). And another is Mikael Cleto, who is even younger and working his way through the lower levels of the Mariners minor league system.

Memo to baseball managers: You manufacture runs by NOT making outs, not by making them on purpose.

by Wonko on Jul 1, 2009 10:42 PM PDT reply actions   1 recs

I will be shocked if the Padres could get Juan Ramirez for Kouz

my guess would be they will get a AAAA level reliever who will do well at Petco and a low A level arm, that kind of seems like KT’s MO with moves like this.

by Grey Suit on Jul 2, 2009 7:49 AM PDT up reply actions  

I don't know

I was reading somebody’s reaction who was well aware of Kouz’ struggles, and it was that the trade would require a B or B+ prospect. There is context here. The Mariners don’t have anyone better than Kouz, they have a high enough payroll that even a arbitration-years contract from Kouz is a drop in the bucket, they would get Kouz for like 3 years before he’s a free agent, and they are competing for a division title. All these things, as unlikely as it seems given Kouz’ recent history, puts the Padres in a pretty decent bargaining position. Ramirez, like I implied, is still the pipe dream, best case scenario, but there is definitely leverage here.

Memo to baseball managers: You manufacture runs by NOT making outs, not by making them on purpose.

by Wonko on Jul 2, 2009 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions  

Mariners

Quit trying to be our friend. We shared Chris Burke for awhile, and that was fine… I guess… but if you take Kouz off our hands, we’re going to find it even harder to hate you.

Gawd, they’re so polite, it’s annoying. They’re like Canada.

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by Axion on Jul 1, 2009 11:31 PM PDT reply actions  

We also shared Josh Wilson

And they were both former Diamondbacks too. Is there a conspiracy?

Memo to baseball managers: You manufacture runs by NOT making outs, not by making them on purpose.

by Wonko on Jul 1, 2009 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions  

Ugh

It’s official; we’re dating the Mariners.

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by Axion on Jul 1, 2009 11:55 PM PDT up reply actions  

Andy Benes too?

How about Kevin Jarvis?

Memo to baseball managers: You manufacture runs by NOT making outs, not by making them on purpose.

by Wonko on Jul 2, 2009 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions  

Would that result in a Moosicorn?

Or a unimoose?
“Hey Rockie, watch me pull a crappy shortstop out of my a**”

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by Boilermaker19 on Jul 2, 2009 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions   2 recs

Garrett Olson

Towers always gets his man.

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by R. Lankford on Jul 2, 2009 4:45 PM PDT reply actions  

Actually it's not

But not for the reason you think. He’s actually part of the rotation right now, so losing him would be losing a key piece of there hopes at contending. They would much prefer to lose a minor leaguer so that the trade would be a 2009 upgrade with any costs pushed off as future losses.

Memo to baseball managers: You manufacture runs by NOT making outs, not by making them on purpose.

by Wonko on Jul 2, 2009 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions  

thats a good point

i still think Olsen is the guy Towers targets

552

by wrveres on Jul 3, 2009 1:14 AM PDT up reply actions  

He could have had Olsen

for pennies on the dollar this offseason. Towers doesn’t want the guy, or he’d already be a Padre. Plus, I don’t see anything in him that Towers would like.

Memo to baseball managers: You manufacture runs by NOT making outs, not by making them on purpose.

by Wonko on Jul 3, 2009 2:15 AM PDT up reply actions  

F'ril.

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by TheThirdGonzalez on Jul 3, 2009 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions  

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